Menongue - The provincial supervisor for reproductive health in south-eastern Cuando Cubango Province, Elvira Bravo, on Tuesday, in the city of Menongue, defended the importance of women making a habit of routine medical checkups to prevent diseases.
Speaking to ANGOP on the occasion of International Women's Health Day, marked on Tuesday 28 May, Elvira Bravo also stressed the importance of women acquiring knowledge about the care to be taken when choosing products for hygiene.
According to her, nutrition is essential for health in every sense.
She also urged women to constantly undergo preventive examinations for cervical cancer, to be screened for chlamydia, and to have a good relationship with their gynaecologist through annual consultations so that they can be properly monitored.
She pointed out that it is not just women who should know more about these issues, but that it is also important for men to know more about women's issues, so that they can better understand their partners or any woman they live with on a daily basis.
For this reason, she assured that awareness campaigns were promoted in rural areas on the principles of hygiene during the menstrual period and daily cleaning, in order to encourage young women to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
She urged gynaecology specialists to promote women's health in its different phases, namely reproductive, non-reproductive and post-reproductive, given the fact that women's health has been pinched by the inefficiency and excessive use of various products in bathing situations, and others, without the prior authorisation and knowledge of specialists in the sector.
According to her, such actions have been the main cause of infections, from the simplest to the most complex, with interference in the constraints of women's lives.
In her opinion, it is important to periodically hold lectures focussing on issues related to women's health, myths and truths after childbirth, where clear information can be passed on, since the subject is still something of a taboo.
International Women's Health Day aims to alert the public to the inequality between women and men in terms of access to health care and to promote actions to raise awareness of the importance of women's health and proper medical care for all women.
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